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floor at least, there are no windows. The rooms overlook their 

 own garden only, betraying a fine indifference to the vulgar 

 things of the street. Indeed they go further; they carefully 

 exclude them. And admittance to the groimds is obtained only 

 upon the summons of the bell at the garden gate — or door. 

 Truly these are gardens to live in, gardens with an air about 

 them, even though they are small, and cramped by city 

 conditions. 



A wooden arch or a lattice-trellis whereon vines may climb is 

 about the simplest cover for a gateway. And winter and sum- 

 mer it is attractive, if kept trim and neat; but this is a gate 

 treatment which seems to conform only to a certain type of 

 house, and it always has an out-of -place look unless such a house 

 lies beyond it. It is a part of the white paint and green shutters 

 epoch, of the exact perfection of box borders and Colonial door- 

 yards. It must be painted white, like the house, to look right ; 

 and it belongs above the picket gate in a spotless, straight and 

 precise picket fence. So this, though an easy way of securing a 

 desired result, is not a very generally available one. For pure 

 Colonial architecture is not common. 



Gates with hooded roofs suit admirably the informal and un- 

 conventional lines of houses of the half-timbered, bungalow and 

 craftsman type, and have great, and as yet almost entirely un- 

 developed, possibilities. Executed in the same wood as that 

 used in the house construction, stained the same color, they may 

 have either a shingled or a thatched roof. The latter seems 

 actually appropriate to only rustic conditions however, and to 

 the general surroundings where such construction may be in- 

 dulged in. The gate itself in such a structure naturally will 

 conform to the rest of the structure. 



For the entrance through a rough stone wall these hooded 



